ndulging in
perverseness by not donning one of your most fetching gowns," declared
Eleanor.

"Maybe it is," said Polly, smiling tantalizingly at her chum. "Perhaps I
want to keep the freshness of them for someone in New York, eh?"

"Certainly! _He_ will be there to meet you, sure thing!" laughed Eleanor.

At that, Dorothy drew Eleanor aside and, when Polly was not looking,
whispered eagerly: "Do tell me who he is?"

But Eleanor laughingly shook her head and whispered back: "I dare not!
That is Polly's secret!"

But she did not add for Dorothy's edification, that try as she would, she
(Eleanor) had never been able to make Polly confess whether she preferred
one swain to another. As Eleanor considered this a weakness in her own
powers of persuasion, she never allowed anyone to question her that far.

Had anyone of the four girls dreamed of who the sender of the wireless
was, what a buzzing there would have been! Eleanor Maynard would have
been so pleased at the possibility of a romance, that she would have
acted even more tantalizing, in Polly's opinion, than she had been of
late months.

Perhaps you are not as well acquainted with Polly and her friends,
however, as I am, and it would be unkind to continue their experiences
for your entertainment, until after you are duly informed of how Polly
happened to leave her home in Oak Creek and also what had passed during
the Summer in Europe.

Polly Brewster was born and reared on a Rocky Mountain ranch, in
Colorado, and had until her fourteenth year, never been farther from her
home than Oak Creek, which was the railroad station and post office of
the many ranchers of that section.

Eleanor Maynard, the younger daughter of Mr. Maynard who was a prosperous
banker of Chicago, accompanied her sister Barbara and Anne Stewart, the
teacher, when they spent a summer on the ranch. Their thrilling
adventures during the first half of that summer are told in the book
called "Polly of Pebbly Pit," the first volume of this series.

After the discovery of the gold mine on Grizzly Slide, and the subsequent
troubles with the claim-jumpers, Polly and her friends sent for John
Brewster who was engaged to Anne Stewart, and Tom Latimer, John's best
friend, to leave their engineering work on some mines, for the time
being, and hasten to Pebbly Pit to advise about the gold mine, and to
take action to protect the girls. These experiences are told in the
second volume of this series.

Su